Word Helper Web App with LC 10: Filtering and Text Matching with Regex

Robert Cole

Robert (Bob) Cole

Bob first trained in Fortran IV in 1968. He has learned and used multiple languages and now continues his software passion with LiveCode 10. Bob spent 36 years in financial industries, stock and bond markets, accounting and 11 years in corporate software with SQL.

Engineering degree: Brown University, 1972

Masters in Business Administration: University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School, 1974

First computer: Tandy Radio Shack TRS-80, 1977
First Macintosh: SE (two floppy drives), 1987
Introduced to HyperCard: 1988
Introduced to Revolution/LiveCode: 2008
First Web App and LC Conference Presentation: 2022

Wordle Helper Web App using Regex

Bob will discuss how he built a Web App with LiveCode 10 to assist with the Wordle game. Using the player’s word guesses and the colors from the Wordle game, Bob’s web app filters through Wordle’s original 12,972 word list to show how many words remain after each guess. By default, the remaining words are hidden but may be displayed with the click of a button. This is a companion app to work side by side conjunction with the Wordle game.

Bob’s web app is available at: morrevbon.com/wordhelper.html

The presentation will discuss these LiveCode features:

  • filter filterSource with wildcardPattern;
  • filter filterSource without wildcardPattern;
  • matchText(string, regularExpression); and
  • Building the wildcardPattern and the regularExpression.
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